Pippa Stephens
BBC News, London

That's all for us on BBC London Live today.

It has been a busy day, with Tower Hamlets mayor John Biggs describing the five-year-old girl's death in Mile End Park as "terrible" and the Met Police boss saying the "dozens" of problems with police water cannon use have been addressed.

Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford also appeared in Westminster Magistrates court on an indecent assault charge involving a 17-year-old girl.

Please join us tomorrow for more news, sport, travel and weather.

BBC London News

On the news tonight at 18:30, the BBC's Alex Bushill reports on the five-year-old girl, Alexia Walenkak, who was killed when part of a tree a rope swing was attached to fell on top of her in Mile End Park.

Park wardens have told BBC London that they carried out safety checks, the day before she was killed.

Her mother says she needs reassurances that what happened to her child doesn't happen again.

A new exhibition at the Wellcome Trust showcases everyday objects bound in copper, external.

Image source, Getty Images

Items include guitars, table tops, keys and padlocks in the show, by French-British artist Alice Anderson.

BBC Sport

Charlton Athletic have made Algeria international Ahmed Kashi their fourth signing of the summer.

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The Championship club have paid French side Metz an undisclosed fee for the 26-year-old midfielder.

Kashi, who made his debut for Algeria earlier this year, has signed a three-year deal at The Valley.

A miniature Tower Bridge has been made out of 83,000 batteries.

Image source, PA

The bridge, 12 metres long and four metre high sculpture, is part of a stunt to launch a new type of battery by Energizer, which claims to be the world's first made with 4% recycled cells.

A project has launched to help those feeling isolated in London, giving older people hens to look after.

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The £1m initiative, by the Equal Arts charity and Notting Hill Housing, has launched in Hammersmith and Westminster.

It uses hen-keeping to tackle social isolation, reduce depression and improve people's wellbeing and is also seeing benefits for people with dementia as care staff report a drop in the use of anti-psychotic medication.

BBC Weather

It will be dry overnight with cloudy periods but also some lengthy clear spells. Despite winds staying light, it will remain fairly mild.

Minimum temperature: 14C (57F).

Pippa Stephens
BBC News, London

Our top stories on BBC London Live this afternoon:

• A union representing Tube staff has suspended talks aimed at averting another strike after raising an "emergency" safety issue

• Police water cannon faults all addressed, Met chief says

• Jean Charles de Menezes' death 'tore my soul away', mother says.

BBC Travel

There is severe disruption on the A1055 both ways between Jeffreys Road in Ponders End, Enfield, and Lea Valley Road due to a serious fire at a pallet yard.

The A2 Rochester Way Relief Road is partially obstructed southbound due to debris in the road. Approach with caution.

And on the trains, the Southeastern service between Victoria and Orpington is disrupted due to signal failure at Herne Hill.

National Rail tweets: , external"The approach to Euston station on the West Coast Main Line."

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Valentines Park in Ilford is hosting a weekend celebration, external this weekend, which involves a sleepover for families, an outdoor gym induction, family orienteering and a conservation workday.

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Ten years ago Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead at a London Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect.

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Speaking exclusively to the BBC, his mother, Maria de Menezes, says the killing "tore my soul away".

Camden New Journal

A Labour councillor says library closures should be "taken off the table", external and that his colleagues running the town hall should "think long term" about any future cutbacks.

West Hampstead ward councillor Phil Rosenberg was hitting out at the news of a £800,000 cut to the library service and of town hall officials drawing up a list of options to see where the axe could fall.

London Evening Standard
Newspaper

A suspected burglar scaled the roof of a house in Shepherd's Bush and began flinging bricks, tiles and a satellite dish onto the street during a five-hour stand off, external with the police, reports the Evening Standard.

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Thanks to @BexWills for the picture.

A Catford landlord who sexually assaulted one of his lodgers - a 19-year-old woman - has been jailed for 22 months, say the Met Police.

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Ciro Pipolo, 40, offered a "very reasonable price" for one of the bedrooms, advertised online - but on the premise she would have to share with him.

On the night the teenager moved in, Pipolo sexually assaulted her whilst she was falling asleep. She confronted Pipolo the morning after, but he denied anything had happened.

Transport for London tweets:, external "Tower Bridge has suffered a mechanical failure and currently stuck in its open position more updates as we get them."

The problem has now been resolved.

Double Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell will lead campaigns to reduce the number of fatalities and serious injuries on London's roads.

The post was announced by the London Road Safety Council, of which Mr Cracknell will become president.

James is one of Britain's most successful athletes in history, with two Olympic Gold Medals and six World Championship titles.

The dinosaur skeleton cast, the Diplodocus, is being sent on tour by the National History Museum.

Image source, Science Photo Library

The UK tour is set to start from early 2018. A call starts in September for indoor museums and venues to nominate themselves to host the famous dinosaur, says the museum.

Diplodocus was presented to the London establishment in 1905.

Haringey Independent

When Neelam Shah first started volunteering aged 13, external, she was unaware that she would spend the next 10 years supporting numerous charities and making a difference to her community and beyond.

Rolling Stone member Keith Richards has recorded a new album, external, reports the Newshopper website, which is also keen to remind its readers the rocker is from Dartford.

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His album will contain 15 tracks, encompassing his reggae, rock, country and blues influences.

Mr Richards says he had a "ball" making the new record.